Tennessee’s Republican-dominated legislature passed redistricting maps on Thursday, eliminating the state’s one Democratic, Black-majority congressional district a week after the US supreme court effectively gutted a major section of the Voting Rights Act.

The move cracks Tennessee’s ninth congressional district, which covers Memphis, into three pieces, each of which contains almost exactly a third of the city’s Black voters. The new maps mean that all nine of Tennessee’s congressional districts are Republican-leaning.

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[–] 6 points 6 months ago*

It’s the Deep South. Are we surprised?

They’ve been itching to reinstate Jim Crow down there.

A bit more disenfranchisement and the plantation owners politicians will get slavery back.

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